ORDERS ABROAD
FOR BRITISH ADMIRALTY I10MI; I'llICIiS TOO HIGH (United Pros* Association —By EUeotri* Telegraph—Copyright) United Service LONDON, 1911: July. “Owing to the high prices demanded by British firms I have been compelled to place many contracts for goods abroad,” declared .Mr Ammon, Financial Secretary to the Admiralty, in a speech at London, lie said the difference on one contract, which had gone to the United States, was 120 per cent, and that it would he preposterous to expend public money to that extent in order to keep contracts in Britain. He expressed the opinion that the disparity wag not duo to under-paid labour but to British manufacturers’ lack of enterprise.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 22 July 1929, Page 5
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111ORDERS ABROAD Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 22 July 1929, Page 5
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